Posts by faevilangel_designs

It’s wordpress’s fault. There is no reason a theme shouldn’t work after a upgrade. Wordpress needs to update so everything continues to work properly while introducing better features and changes.

At some point, in the very far future, backwards compatibility has to be dropped, or else we would all still be designing templates to work in IE5 and Netscape
I do agree that WP tends to release new versions and updates a little too often, it’s a sacrifice of a little more work and upgrades in return for quick bug fixes and better security (to the WP core).

I have found 90% of themes work between all the wp versions (cept the early stuff).

I have double checked all my clients themes after upgrading them to 2.9 and not had one issue yet. The themes aren’t as technical as here, mostly bog standard html converted but it does whoelly depend on the coding from the author.

I’m gonna be blunt to the op,

you pay less than $40 for a theme. When i create a theme for a client i charge a minimum of $600. Then they pay for extra stuff like features, etc.
I don’t charge for bug fixes, but have never had one appear on wp (cept when they install some new plugins).

It;s xmas so not everyone will be working to fix old themes to 2.9, and a lot of authors here have full time jobs elsehwhere or at school.

You have a few options
1) Wait till they get around to updating the themes.
2) Pay someone to fix the issues for you
3) Ditch the theme and buy a new one that is compatible.

Quit moaning as you pay very little for a lot, the authors will get around to it when they can.